35,000 new IT jobs in Australia – and migrants needed to fill them

Thousands of new jobs are set to be created in Australia’s digital economy, but there are not enough workers to fill them.

According to the Australian Computer Society, theÂ booming digital economy may lead to the creation of 35,000 new ICT jobs by 2013, but Australia will not have enough candidates to fill these positions.Â The latest report found that while the digital economy was worth $100 billion last year and 14,000 new jobs would be created in 2012 with another 21,000 expected in 2013, university ICT enrolments were down in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania. According to the report, and TechWorld, national enrolments are now less than half the enrolment numbers of a decade ago.

ICT skills brought by migration were also down. The report found that temporary ICT migrants arriving in Australia declined 25 per cent in 2011 to 8,530.

ACS chief executive, Alan Patterson, said that the Compendium confirmed Australiaâ€™s urgent need for coordinated policy focus on ICT given its value and the demands in the broader economy for skills. â€œAlthough ICT demand is increasing even in uncertain economic conditions, the number of domestic students choosing ICT as a career is insufficient to meet demand,â€ he said in a statement.

Patterson added that ICT enrolments are continuing to decline as a percentage of all higher education enrolments and the drop in skilled ICT migration suggests Australian employment requirements cannot be met easily.

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I am interested, I’m an engineer in telecommunications and electronics with master’s degree in business administration and management (MBA), currently pursuing Masters in Management Information Technologies.
I have experience in telecommunications networks, administration and as a university professor.
I am interested in working in Australia. Someone could help me to apply for the vacancy?
Thank you very much for your help.

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I have a 10+ years of experience in Treasury Front Office business with exposure to FX, MM, Fixed Income, TMU Sales and Equity domain. My responsibilities were inter-bank trading, book management, handling internal, external and central bank audits, budgeting and transfer pricing between books.

My IT related responsibilities involved setting-up Treasury business in newly established Retail and Islamic banks. I was mainly involved in implementation of Core Banking solutions, Reuters and Bloomberg dealing system setup in Treasuries of most of the Banks I worked.

I have also worked as Business Engineer and Test Manager for Automated Trading System (FX) and Spirit Asia (Structured Products) Order Management system implementation with downstream interfacing with TEMENOS T24.

Along-with my degree in Banking & Finance, I have also attained professional IT certifications as ISTQB Certified Tester and Oracle Certified Professional.

Hi,
I have been living in Australia for the last 6 years and an IT graduate here from Australian University. I have applied for my PR in May 2009 but i am still waiting for my application outcome. It is so frustrating to wait for that long and without my wife. I am currently working in IT industry but still have got my PR. What a shame………….
i have so many Friends who have IT experience and are graduated from here but still they are driving taxis and no body give them a job in their fields. You can imagine the reality in this 35,000 new jobs.

getting a job in IT is very tough here. event hough you have experience in IT . i have 5+ years of IT experience. but i have not received any intw call till now. m here from past 3 months. i have seen lots of educated ppl dont have option other than driving a taxi. getting PR is also a luck here!!

l have seen ppl after studing from here also not getting the jobs in their fields…its really very much frustrating stuation. you are lucky man that atleast you have got job in IT.

Unless you have SAP or Mining experience there’s not much in WA where I’ve been living and working since 1988. I was born in Australia and so PR is not a problem for me

I’ve been looking for jobs in management, project management, team leadership and software engineering (my background) since August 2011, having been made redundant from a job of 6+ years due to the increased AUD:USD exchange rate.

My ICT experience covers 40+ years but it seems the breadth and depth of my skills and experience doesn’t “tick the right boxes” for recruiters – easier to employ a youngster while he still knows everything!

Please can you assist me as I have been eagerly waiting to relocate to Australia. It has been 6 months now and I have sent my resume to recruiters in OZ and have received a great response however a visa is requested everytime. It is costing me a lot of money to relocate but was hoping to receive a letter of employment in order to fasten the process. I have been qualified by migration agents but the road ahead is a long and tideous exercise and exhausting too. I am 12 years in IT and have 10 years bid management experience and have qualified with an APMP accreditation. Any advise will be greatly appreciated. Thanking you .

Despite of this expected high demand for IT employers, you always have to keep in mind that you will need good savings of money and expectations.

First of all, to be interesting for a company, you will need a legal permission to work (with the PR everything would help more then working VISA) and, obviously, a good level of english.

Besides that, you will need good references in Australia. Without that, companies can’t know if you are good as a person and as an australian employer. That’s something they really care about and will check before hiring you.

As this can take a long time, you will need to hold the finances and, of course your expectations as well. Specially, if you are coming with your family.

Anyway, I do encourage you to always keep focusing on your target and don’t give up. At the same time that the barriers will be hard to overcome, they will push you up to be stronger for the next difficulties.

That’s really good to see news like this. But, despite of this good forecast, you always have to keep in mind that you will need good savings of money and expectations.

First of all, arriving in a new place won’t be that easy if you are not going for vacations… The first thing you will face, probably will be: “Ok, I got here, and now…from where should I start? ” Don’t worry, if you arrived it is because you have made the decision to come and will be rewarding to find each answer and solve each problem!

But let us focus in the job matter…

To be interesting for a company, you will need a legal permission to work (with the PR everything would be easier!) and, obviously, a good level of english.

Besides that, you will need good experience and references in Australia. Without that, companies can’t know if you are the best choice either as a person or as an employer. That’s something they will really check before hiring you. As the culture might be a lot different from your home country to Australia, employers may not want to take the risk of hiring someone that they don’t know if he/she is adapted to local social costumes and working standards. Last but not least, it might be hard for them to check overseas references.

In sum, as it can take a time to finally get your job, you will need to hold the finances and your expectations as well. Specially, if you are intending to come with your family.

Before taking any decision, it is important to know the obstacles you will face. Anyway, I do encourage you to always keep focusing on your target and never give up. At the same time that the barriers will be hard to overcome, they will push you up to be stronger for the next difficulties.

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i want to live and work in Australia, i will organize my life to find someone who can sponsor me to migrate in australia. I’m a gun php developer who are launching invoicissimo.com today, i’m a WP architect, now i’m a web developer of the first italian carrier, i m also a building surveyor student, i speak 4 language if we considere my poor english (FR,AR,IT).

I’am an IT / Telecommunication Engineer with 9 yrs relevant experience in a leading telecommunication company in the United Arab Emirates and IT Professional. I would like to build and explore a career with my potentials.

I am a director of an IT company in Australia.
I could sponsor candidates with right skills and get you a job with shortage of skills in Australia.
If you meet the requirements for the jobs advertised, please forward me your details.
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I will try to attend the Down Under Live in Birmingham (I’m on the south East side of Greater London). My family and I are currently in the throws of completing our Aussie visa application (just done my health checks).

I have about 12 years experience in development in various sectors, namely health, membership, and investment banking (current role). I am involved in the full development and life cycle.

Please send me your email ID…will send my CV ,
Already in final Process for NEWZEALAND for work permit…Kindly send me details….as My sell working as HR AVP IT STAFFING, & My spouse working as Sr. Delivery Manager with IBM….both kids – US Citizens…
Can Relocate in a very short notice Period.
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I would be interested. I have experience in high tech system development and project management. CRM systems, pricing system, ERP, Inventory management, distributed software, web based systems, etc. I also have experience in Intellectual Property licensing, licensing operations, and systems development for licensing companies.

Good day, I’m interested in moving to Australia. I have few relatives who live in Victoria, Melbourne. They want me to visit them for vacation but I can’t leave my work here in Cebu, Philippines not unless I’ll be working there. I’m a programmer for 4 yrs. I used PHP/MySQL for almost 3 yrs and a year in ASP.net/C#.

I am an IT system engineer with 8 years experience and I am planning to move permantly to Australia. I am thinking of Sydney or Melbourne but I am open to proposes.
My certifications are : MCP,MCITP (Virtual servers),MCSA 2003 servers,MCTS.
from Oracle part : OCA 10 & 11g, and I study and graduate as electronic engineer in technological institute in Greece.

I am an IT system engineer with 8 years experience and I am planning to move permanently to Australia any city.
My certifications are : Solaris 10,VMware,ITL and ISM ( Information storage management).
My skill set includes Sun Solaris 8/9/10,Linux ,AIX, VM ware ( ESX 4.1,4.1i)Veritas/Sun Volume Manager, Veritas Clusters, HP-UX administration concepts ,shell scripting ,SAN storage Administrator and Network Administrator, Currently I am working in Singapore AT&T as Unix engineer.
I had one plus years of AUS-Sydney local experience in EDS (client Comman wealth bank of Australia).

I’m a Core-Banking consultant, with 5+ years of experience, working currently for an Islamic Bank in the GCC region, specifically in the field of financial control & reconciliation, IT project management & Banking product consultancy…

I’m looking forward to moving to Australia, for the sake of expanding my knowledge-base, as well as grasping a various potential banking opportunities that haven’t been explored in Australia’s market…

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I am in Australia, and Australian I have 14 +years experience 13 of those as an IT/IS Manager but I am unemployed. I see jobs advertised daily, apply but so do 20 other people, so my question is where are these jobs and at what level? If there is a skill shortage what is the skill set needed?

I have worked up to 80+ hours a week regularly for my previous employer so it isn’t as though I am adverse to hard work. It looks as though its who you know not what you know.

I am interested in moving to Australia,I have more than 8 years of experience in managing IT services.
Having more than 8 years’ experience in IT service delivery and operational management .With a robust attitude towards driving service improvement and improved customer experience while maintaining agreed business procedures.
Strong operational management, process implementation abilities pooled with analytical, problem solving, people management & soft skills.

Many of the IT jobs are for the government, with the majority of them requiring security clearance. You can only get clearance if you are a citizen. This makes it very difficult for permanent residents, like myself, to get jobs.

There are many jobs in the other major centres as well. If you want to come to Canberra, just make sure you can support yourself for a few months.

It is great to be working at NZ. I have 7 years of experience in IT industry working on Oracle, MySQL databases and PHP, AJAX, JQuery, JAVA for development. With qualifications like B.Sc.(Geo), PGDM(Finance) I would be able to find greater scope of working at NZ.

Hi,
I am an international student finishing in June 2012, my Master of Information Technology in Management at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. I have been applying for several jobs before finishing my Masters degree; however, most of the companies ask for people able to work full time and I have not found any company so far, that is willing to sponsor any IT graduated. This is quite a shame because companies are not willing to invest in the talent of the Australian market before looking at people currently not living down under. I would like to apply for a job in Australia as I am a professional highly capable to accomplish the standards of the industry. I would like also to work in New Zealand as an IT professional.

I am a well-organized person and a responsible team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. My work experience over 9 years in Web, Graphic and mobile apps design have enabled me to gain an understanding of design principles, printing processes, web design, and various computer software.

In addition, I have strong technical and interpersonal skills, I am fluent in English, Arabic and little Turkish. I believe that my cultural background can contribute to developing designs.

Hello,
I have over 12 years of work experience in IT infrastructure support, design, consulting and advisory. From past 5 years I am working as cloud architect and advisor. I have couple of patent pending analytics in the cloud computing domain. I have GSM 174 AU PR.
I would like to know,
1. where are the cloud jobs (which cities)
2. how long it takes to get the job (in weeks)
3. what would be the salary (min)

I am having a rich experience of 9+ years on AS/400, RPG, CL, DB2, SQL, COBOL/400, LiFE/400 and SMART/400 in Insurance Domain, I have worked for different geographies for the implementation and supporting Life Insurance business.

I am interested for opportunities in Australia or New Zealand. Please let me know the email address of concerned person who can help me to achieve my goal.

I am a recent MBA graduate from the United States. My concentrations are in Organizational Leadership and International Business, and I have 3 years of experience in management and approximately 10 years in customer service. I would love to look into opportunities to live and work abroad and am greatly interested in what Australia and New Zealand have to offer.

I have a total of 28 years of IT experience.
• Over 4 years of solid experience in Data Integration, Data-Warehousing, Conversion, Migration and Data-Archiving using Informatica PowerCenter and 2 yrs using DataStage ETL Tools.
• 6 years of experience in Business Intelligence and Reports Data Analysis, Excel and Access Report 2003/2007 components, Crystal Report XI, Xcelcius, OBIEE, Business Object XI Rel. 3.2, and IBM Cognos;
• 12+ years of experience in programming using PL/SQL and highly proficient with Oracle database implementations, TOAD/SQL Developer.

I would love to check into opportunities to live and work abroad and am greatly interested in what Australia have to offer.